After the recent keynote I delivered for the London Science Fiction Research Community (LSFRC)’s annual conference, on the topic of automated labour and the question of free time in science fiction, I was thrilled to be invited by BBC radio producer Phil Tinline to contribute to a radio...

I was fortunate enough to be able to travel to the US in Autumn 2011 to attend a fantastic conference, "Critical Refusals: The 4th Conference of the International Herbert Marcuse Society," held at the University of Pennsylvania in October 2011. Whilst this was the biennial...

I've recently been involved in running the Capital Reading Group at the University of Lincoln, which meets every fortnight during term-time to read and discuss Marx's first volume of Das Kapital (in English – the Ben Fowkes translation). The group has a facebook page if...

In September 2008 I co-organised a one-day AHRC-funded international conference with Dr Matthew Mead and Dr Alexander Dunst at the University of Nottingham titled "New Radical Subjectivities: Rethinking Agency for the 21st Century." The conference attracted a diverse range of...

Whilst researching my PhD at the University of Nottingham, I co-founded and co-organised the Marx Reading Group with my friends and colleagues Dr Adity Singh and Dr Alexander Dunst. To accompany the growing interest in the group, we decided to run annual film screenings of films and...